Cesar’s thoughts were too hard to read, as his face showed ion. If it weren’t for the fact that he was staring right at him, Ace wouldn’t be able to sense anything at all. His very presence was like a dark void.

  Cesar’s emotionless eyes sed the battlefield, nodding at times and furrowing his brows at others. Not even the pained grunts of his handless disciple did much to distract him.

  It was only when his indifferent eyes fell baathias that he opened his mouth for the first time.

  “You must be reted to that little monkey kid and his master,” Cesar specuted aloud. “A mid-staged saint with the prehension of a prime saint… Not bad.”

  “And you… To defeat that grand disciple of mine as, despite being three ranks lower and half his age, not bad at all,” Cesar nodded before Mathias could voice a reply as his eyes fell on Ace, a hint of i and amusement flickering through them. “Are you another of that woman’s disciples? If not, you could bey disciple. If you do, I’ll train you till your strong enough to beat up that cheeky little ape!”

  This time, whether it was Ace, Mathias, or even the dumbfounded Sis, eared to have just regained sciousness, they all looked speechlessly at the middle-aged man.

  He was pletely flippant and nont. He could clearly see that hundreds of his men had been killed. Even his grand and personal disciples had beeed, a, he wao take one of the perpetrators as his disciple.

  This wasn’t the attitude one would expect from the so-called king of killers. The only o surprised by Cesar’s as was Ragnor; he appeared to be very much used to this zy and carefree master of his.

  “So…” Cesar asked again. “What do you say?”

  “Sorry,” Ace shook his head calmly. “Not ied.”

  Though still taken aback by Cesar’s attitude, he had no i in taking another master. Not even one as powerful as the Yun ti’s most prolific assassin.

  “That’s too bad,” Cesar sighed regretfully as the most dense and terrifying killing i Ace had ever felt exploded out of him. “I guess I’ll just have to kill you all then.”

  Ace had felt the killing i of many powerful individuals, but without fail, they all paled in parison to the man before him.

  Ace’s eyes became pinholes as he froze in fright. For the first time since he had prehended [Observation: Future Sight], he felt like it didn’t matter how hard he tried, he could only die in front of Cesar.

  It was a such a terrifying feeling that for what felt like the lohree seds of his life, Ace genuinely fot to breathe.

  Then as if it never existed in the first pce, Cesar’s horrifying killing i vanished as quickly as it appeared.

  “Ooh, you actually mao stay on your feet?” Cesar voiced in a gratutory manner as he fshed an amused smile.

  Of the mortals present, only Ace mao stay on his feet; the others had all fallen to their knees or ft on their faces under Cesar’s dispy of terror.

  “Please stop intimidating the children, Cesar,”

  As Ace heard the voice of who he immediately reised to be his master’s wife, Arianna, he couldn’t help but sigh in relief as he fought to catch his breath.

  Looking over his shoulder, he found the reliable figure of the Pavilion’s spiritual guardian, her face, as ever, the picture of grad elegance, as she calmly looked at Cesar admonishingly.

  “o be so uptight,” Cesar replied, his voice still calm, but Ace could sense a faint apprehension. “I was only pying around.”

  “Pying around?” Arianna asked back. “In that case, I’d like to ‘py around’ a bit as well.”

  This time it was Cesar’s turn to show fear.

  Other than the one who rules over the Forest of Darkness, Cesar had met all the deities on the ti, but it was the woman in front of him who scared him most.

  She, like Mathias, was only a mid-staged saint-level warrior and mage, but her true power was simply unfathomable.

  He khat if she wanted him dead, he’d be lucky to st orike.

  Not wanting to lose any more fa this situation, Cesar could only clear his throat and hurriedly ge the subject.

  “So what’s going on here anyway?” Cesar asked as he tossed his disciple off his shoulder, gring at him threateningly, as if to say he had better fill this awkward silence.

  Arianna knew Cesar was trying to ge the subject, but she merely smiled and did nothing to embarrass him further.

  Ragnor was used to his master’s etrid shameless behaviour; what shocked him was the genuine fear Cesar tried to hide.

  Ragnor had seen his master i with both the War God and the High Priest at different points in time. Although cautious, Cesar hadn’t looked to be scared.

  It was then he remembered a caution his master had given him and the h-ranking members of Sabre after the i with Wukong.

  “Don’t look for reveh that monkey kid or aed to him, and if a mission es in to assassinate him, reject it directly!”

  At the time, he and the others had all been surprised as, till now, other than the few deities and prime saints, there was no mission Sabre didn’t dare to take on. Whether it was the various world leaders, generals, or saint-level experts, Sabre was willing to take it on.

  It was only when speaking to him alohat Cesar expihat Wukong’s master was a saint no weaker than himself.

  Though surprised that there rime saint that Sabre hadn’t heard of roaming around the ti, Ragnor didn’t think much more about it; after all, each of the prime saints were terrifying figures capable of sughtering saints like him with ease.

  What he didn’t even sider was his master’s words, “A saint no weaker than me”, meant that she was actually stronger, but looking at the way in which his carefree master reacted to this woman’s preseold him everything he o know.

  ing to that realisatinor couldn’t help but take another look at the woman standing calmly behind Ace, but no matter how hard he studied her, all he could see was a mid-staged saint.

  The only thing that was slightly out of the ordinairy was that she had reached the middle of the saint stage as a mage and a warrior, but she wasn’t the first talent to focus on both paths; even the man who’d left him handless was at the same stage.

  It was only whehought baathias’ st attack that he realised something strahe profundities infused…

  They’ve reached the Prime Saint level!’

  Ragnor’s dark eyes almost popped out his socket when he realised that, as it meant that if Mathias were to make another breakthrough and reach the peak of the saint rank, he would directly bee a prime saint.

  As his prehension had reached such a stage, there was no reason for him to still be a mid-staged saint… Unless it was by choice!

  He didn’t know why anyone would choose to keep from breaking through, but as soon as he came to that realisation, he uood that the only way for this mystery woman to be a mid-staged saint but be strohan his master was if her insights surpassed his own, which would mean her insights were equal to that of a deity.

  Upon ing to that realisation, he looked at Arianna as though he were looking at a monster.

  If it weren’t for his master clearing his throat, he would’ve tiaring foolishly, fetting their current situation.

  “Sorry,” Ragnor said with a newfound respect before turning back to his master. “I was told by one of our members that a young member of the Prey had been captured by one of our assassins in an attempt to please and impress you.”

  “Impress me?” Cesar snorted disdainfully. “What’s impressive about capturing a child?!”

  “Because after you sughtered your way into the Prey , you never bothered to expin yourself, and rumours began to circute about your apparent hatred of that particur branch of the four supreme warrior desdants,” Ragnor expined, exasperated by his master’s nonce. “Sihen, any desdant discovered was assassinated by the junior members hoping to dht by you.”

  Alissa trembled when hearing that. She could only imagihe fear her fellow Pray family members must’ve felt as they were tinuously hunted down.

  “Idiots! A bunch of idiots! What kind of foolish idiots have you allowed into my anisation?!” Cesar spat as he tinuously cursed his subordinates as though they could hear him. “Pass down an order from me; anyone found to kill a member of the Prey for no reason will be executed by me personally!”

  “Master…” Ragnor called, only to be ignored.

  “I’m guessing the little Prey girl is another of your disciples?” Cesar asked, turning back to Arianna apologetically. “On behalf of my stupid subordinates, I apologise. You have my word; she will be free from any further attempts on her life by my anisation.”

  “MASTER!” Ragnor shouted.

  “What? Why are you screaming like a child?!” Cesar snapped back frustratedly. “’t you see I’m talking here?”

  “I know, but I wasn’t finished expining,” Ragnhed.

  “What more is there to say?” Cesar rolled his eyes.

  As far as he was ed, the quicker they sorted this mess out, the sooner he could leave a as far away from the monster in front of him as possible.

  “Look at her,” Ragnor said, motioning towards the silver-haired teen who was the cause of all the otion. “Doesn’t she look a little… Familiar?”

  “Familiar? Why would…” The moment Cesar stopped to really pay attention to the little Tigerstriped warrior, he couldn’t help but freeze in disbelief.

  Alissa had been listening ily, hoping to gleam any bit of information she could about her background, but till now, she was left with more questions than actual answers.

  Still, she didn’t dare to interrupt. Though she was effectively the topic of versation, she knew she was too weak to interject, and she didn’t dare do anything to annoy the ‘King of Killers’, but before she could react, Cesar had disappeared from his inal position, only to appear in front of her.

  Alissa hadn’t been the only ooo slow to react. Despite paying stant attention to the dark-robed killer, Killian, who was standing right beside his ‘cssmate’, had only noticed Cesar’s appearaer it was too te.

  Still, he reacted instinctively by swinging his axe with all his might, a ferocious glint fshing through his eyes as he ighe obvious differen strength.

  Unfortunately, the differen strength couldn’t be closed just by wishing it so. Despite being a mighty warrior in his ht, the bde of his trusted battle axe shattered upon making tact with Cesar’s body doing absolutely no damage to a himself as his arms numbed uhe impact.

  Cesar, though, didn’t seem to notice the boy’s attempt. His full attention was solely on the silver-haired teen.

  Though shocked and terrified by the sudden development, Alissa didn’t find the killing i er she had expected. In fact, if she didn’t know better, she would’ve sworn the so-called ‘King of Killers’ was looking at her with hesitation, disbelief, and even affe.

  “Your mother,” Cesar asked softly. “What was your mother’s name?”

  It took everything Alissa had to stay standing; her emotiooo chaotic to even think about replying.

  “Your mother’s name,” Cesar said gently, not minding her inability to respond. “Was your mother’s name, Luenna?”

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